The Dependent Relations Of Sino-Russian Trade

Russia and China have been playing important roles in the international stage, both economically and politically. With the fast economic globalization, China's great achievement and the resurgence of Russia economy, the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has attracted worldwide attention. The friendship and the trade relations between two countries can be traced to ancient times. During the past twenty years of Reform and Opening to the outside world, China has been developing fast. The ranking of China's foreign trade amount has grown from the thirty-second in 1978 to the third in 2006, just after American and Germany. Besides, since May 2000, Vladimir Putin has been in office, the Russia society gradually got stable and the economy started to enhance, and now it is one of the areas and countries with the fastest economic growth. The conditions for swift development of economic and trade cooperation between Russian and China have been well to go. In accordance with last year's statistics, the Sino-Russia economic and trade relations has achieved initial success, and will have a bright future. Therefore, it is of great importance to study the Sino-Russia economic and trade relations in the new century. Focusing on the significance of the Sino-Russia economic and trade relations in the new century, the passage explores the problems on the history, current situation of their trade relations and its dependent relations, and then puts forward the solutions and suggestions based on the previous achievement and practical cases.The structure and contents are as follows:The preface will discuss the background of Sino-Russia economic and trade development and briefly explain some problems in their cooperation.The first chapter is about Sino-Russian economic and trade development. The first section will discuss the point from the view of global and regional economic integration, a favorable political environment, the stability of the domestic economic development and China's entry to the WTO; and the Sino-Russia economic and trade relations under these circumstances. Section two will discuss current situation of the Sino-Russian economic and trade development from the angle of its features and commodities.The second chapter is about the dependent economic and trade relations between Russia and China. First section will analyze the trade goods of the two countries from the elements and structure and come to the conclusion: trade between the two countries are highly complementary products, trade will achieve mutual benefit; Section two will, based on the TCD, analyze the trade date from 1992 to 2005, and find that although there have been fluctuations in TCD between the two countries, but the value of TCD is always more than 1, which means a high TCD value between two countries.The third chapter is about challenges of Sino-Russian economic and trade development. First section will outline the disadvantages from three aspects: the domestic economic issues in Russia, the Russian competition in the market, and the China threat theory. Section two will discuss the practical problems existing in their cooperation from the following aspects: products structure, credit crisis of Chinese commodities.The fourth chapter is about the harmonious development of the Sino-Russian trade. First, it will discuss the significance of strengthening the trade relations from the view of market diversification and domestic economic development. China needs Russia's energy and raw materials to develop economy and Russia needs the market in East Asia; then the passage will figure out the strategic choices from the aspects of strategic planning, gross trading strategy, technological cooperation, folk exchange, border trade and seeking for new trading growth points.The last part is the conclusion, which will emphasis on the impact of economic and trade cooperation on Sino- Russia bilateral or multilateral relationship, and the future of the Sino-Russia trade cooperation.